As the hot July weather was burning down on them the four made their way hiking through the mountains. One of the good things about this assignment was that they had enormous trees giving them shade from the sun, but that wasn't the case at the moment. Lifting his hand up to block the sun from his eyes, Bakugo squinted his eyes while looking up. They had already been walking for a few hours with no flag in sight.
Grunting Mina wiped her sweaty forehead Looking to her side at a sluggish looking Uraraka who had her mouth open. "I swear Mr. Aizawa did this on purpose."
Too tired to even smile at the moment Uraraka was pretty sure she looked like a walking zombie. "I doubt Mr. Aizawa would go through all that trouble Mina."
"You sure about that? I mean come on!" Mina whined looking at the two boys in front of them "Hey are we there y-"
"NO!" They both turned to look at her.
She just giggled looking at Uraraka who just playfully rolled her eyes.
"Ok fine! But let's at least play a little game while we are walking up this giant mountain to make time go faster!"
"No." Bakugo says not even turning around while checking his watch.
Sticking her tongue out Mina just smiles at the others "Fine since Mr. Cranky pants doesn't want to play, I guess it'll just be us three!"
Grinning Kirishima just looks over his shoulder "Depends on the game."
Lifting a finger to her cheek Mina grins while thinking of what to play. "Hmm let's see…oh ok how about this, we each get to ask someone a question when it's your turn and they have to answer. But if you decide that you don't want to answer the question for any reason then you HAVE to do something we want."
"Oh, ok so kind of like truth or dare." Kirishima grins
"Kind of but we can only ask 3 questions per person and 1 question at a time." She smirks.
Looking next to him Kirishima lifts an eyebrow "Hey bro how bout it?"
"Hard pass."
"Oh, come on man it sounds like fun!" He nudges Bakugo still grinning "We can ask ANY questions we want…."
"No shitty hair I'm not playing that stupid ass game. I got better things to do like focus on the mission."
Face palming himself Kirishima just looks back at the girls. "Alright. So how do we decide who goes first?"
"Well, we could always play rock, paper, scissors?" Uraraka smiles. They agreed and Kirishima won so he got to go first.
"Umm…ok…hmm let me think…. oh, ok if you got to travel anywhere in the world where would you go? "He asked Mina.
She just looked at him bored. "Really? That's your question?" Uraraka had to hold in her laugh watching Minas' face.
"Eh? Why what did you want me to ask?" Kirishima asks scratching his head.
Sighing Mina just shrugged "Nothing. Alright so I guess I'd want to go somewhere that has plenty of beaches…like Hawaii."
"Nice!" Kirishima smiled.
"Ok my turn!" Smirking, she innocently looks at Uraraka. "Uraraka babe, are there any boys in our school that you think are hot?"
Widening her eyes at her friend Uraraka simply stares at her for a minute while feeling her cheeks warm up.
"Ohhh nice one." Kirishima says letting out a small chuckle while occasionally looking next to him and watching for any reaction from the blond.
"Wha-What?" Placing her hands on her cheek trying to hide the blush.
"If you don't want to answer Ochaco that's ok." Mina says.
"NO! I mean yes." Taking a deep breath Uraraka looks down at her feet fidgeting with the hem of her shirt "Yes I would say there are some…I think are cute."
"YAY!" Mina jumps up.
"Really now? Well, that's interesting…" Kirishima smiles lifting an eyebrow while looking at a bored looking Bakugo whose ears started turning red.
Hearing Kirishima chuckle Uraraka glared at his back. "Ok fine. Kirishima out of all the girls in the school who would you say is the prettiest?"
Widening his eyes in panic Kirishima stumbles a little bit before catching himself "Me? You're asking me?"
"Yup." She smiles innocently while folding her arms over her chest.
Hearing Bakugo trying to suppress a laugh Kirishima just looks back at them over his shoulder. "Uh well, I guess if I had to pick someone from the top of my head…this instant. At this very…very moment…I would have to say…Mina." Quickly turning his head back to the front before they could catch him blushing.
Mina on the other hand was so red she didn't know what to say.
"Oh, really now?" Uraraka says smiling.
Shrugging his shoulders, he glances back "Yeah, but I mean there are plenty of pretty girls in school plus Mina is right there so…." Kirishima started rambling on sweat forming on his forehead.
Cringing Uraraka smacks herself on the head 'Oh Kirishima please stop talking!'
"Oh, gee thanks Kiri" Mina says folding her arms annoyed.
"What? Ok how about you Mina, who would you say is the hottest guy in school in your opinion?" Kirishima asks, raising an eyebrow.
"In my opinion? You."
Stopping he looks back at her surprised "Huh?!"
"You heard me." Frowning, she makes her way past everyone, walking ahead and not bothering to look back. Bakugo lets out a loud groan while rolling his eyes annoyed as Kirishima just stares at her retreating form.
"I messed up huh."
"It'll be fine just talk to her." Uraraka gives him a reassuring smile before he starts jogging after her.
Grinning after them Uraraka tightens her hold on her backpack as she starts catching up to a scowling Bakugo. "This shit's fuckin ridiculous."
Curiously tilting her head "What do you mean?"
"Them!" He nods forward. "They're wasting their time fighting over dumb shit when we should be focusing on this mission."
"Bakugo, we are. But it's also alright for them to talk if they feel the need to."
"Tch, it's a fuckin waste of time if you ask me."
Taking another look sideways she frowns before shrugging her shoulders and looking ahead. "I guess you would think that. But not everyone would agree."
Lifting an eyebrow at her "And what the hell do you mean by that?"
"Nothing."
"Why do you always do that?"
"Do what?"
He stops walking to stare at her. When realizing he wasn't walking next to her anymore, she looks back. "Bakugo?"
Narrowing his eyes "If you have something to say than you're better off just saying it."
Rubbing her arm while looking off to the side to try and avoid eye contact with him "It's nothing Bakugo. Really."
Scoffing, he shakes his head disbelieving before walking forward again. "Fuckin fine. Don't tell me then."
Taking a deep breath, she closes her eyes for a brief moment before running to catch up to him. "So do you think we're getting closer to finding the flags?"
Keeping his eyes forward he simply shrugs "Not really. The way the watch shows it might be at the top. So, it might be a while."
"Huh…and how are you so good at this? Do you do this often?"
"What? It's not fuckin rocket science round-face. If you guys actually paid attention to your watches." He rolls his eyes.
"No not that. I mean you are pretty good at that too but I meant all of this…" she waves her hands at their surroundings. "Hiking and stuff."
Peeking at her from the corner of his eye he pursed his lips. "My parents and I do this a few times a year since I was a little kid, it's a great way to get away."
"I can tell you enjoy it." She lets a small smile appear on her lips as she looks forward.
Glancing at her he quickly moves his gaze back to the front. After a minute he continues "That's one of my favorite things to do in my free time…"
She couldn't help but let out a soft giggle before eyeing him "You mean besides training?"
He just rolled his eyes "Not my damn fault you guys are lazy."
She was about to respond when they came across Mina and Kirishima who were already waiting on them.
"Hey guys, so it looks like we've reached a dead end." Kirishima said while looking up.
X
"Ok…so remind me again why we're doing this?" Mina shouts from below Bakugo and Kirishima.
"The quickest way to the top is a straight line, Mina." Kirishima says while climbing and lifting himself higher.
"But wouldn't it just be easier if I just used my quirk?" Uraraka says climbing up the mountain next to Mina.
"If you want to half ass everything in life. Now more climbing less fuckin complaining!" Bakugo shouts from above them.
Panting Mina glances up at Kirishima "We know why Bakugo is doing this so easily, but I didn't picture you as the mountain climbing type Kiri."
"It's no biggie really, sometimes I join Bakubro on one of his trips."
"Aww some male bonding time?" Mina Coos while Uraraka giggles.
"Shut it raccoon eyes and climb!"
"So bossy" She mumbles before looking over to Uraraka. "Honestly Ochaco I don't know how you…survived with Bakugo as a partner." She continues panting.
Lifting herself up Uraraka grunts "he's really not too bad to work with…well sometimes."
"Really?" Mina smirks at her before looking up "Well I do gotta say the view is not too bad to look at from here." gesturing to the two boys and wiggling her eyebrows.
Uraraka couldn't help but laugh shaking her head "Mina!"
"What?" Mina started laughing wiping a tear from her eye. "It's true."
Both girls' unable to stop laughing, tried their best to keep firm grips on the mountain while Uraraka started blushing.
"OI WHAT THE HELL'S SO DAMN FUNNY?!" Bakugo looks at them frowning.
"Yeah, come on girls let's stay focused." Kirishima gives them confused looks.
"Oh no worries we are. We are very focused!" Mina shouts back before laughing again.
Now sweating even more Uraraka felt her stomach hurt from laughing so much but couldn't stop. "Mina…please stop."
Trying to catch her breath Mina keeps laughing shaking her head. "Sorry girl…can't help myself."
Bakugo keeps climbing shaking his head annoyed. "Girls."
"Sorry guys, we were just talking about how much we admired what mother nature has to offer." Mina shouts.
Grinning Kirishima looks down at them "Isn't it?! It's so beautiful and manly!"
By this time both girls had tears down their cheeks again from laughing. Looking at Bakugo, Kirishima smiles "Look dude they are even crying of how gorgeous the view is out here."
"Oh man… I can't…I can't…" Uraraka laughs shaking her head trying to lift herself up.
"They are fuckin annoying is what it is." Bakugo growls as he climbs some more.
"Yeah, and the view from down here isn't so bad either!" Mina shouts again before erupting into another fit of laughter.
Lifting an eyebrow Kirishima looks confused. "Huh?"
"Are you-" Widening his eyes in shock Bakugo looks down "ARE YOU FUCKIN KIDDING ME RIGHT NOW RACCOON EYES?!"
Looking back at Bakugo Kirishima tilts his head "What?"
Growling Bakugo rolls his eyes before lifting himself up again. "They were fuckin looking at us the whole damn time! That's the fuckin reason they were laughing dumbass." He grunts before shouting below "WHEN THEY SHOULD BE WORKING ON GETTING THEIR ASSES UP HERE!"
Blinking profusely Kirishima looks startled "Wait! What?!" before blushing.
"Oh, don't worry Kiri it's really not that bad!" Mina shouts.
"Mina! I'm trying to focus here!" Kirishima shouts while gawking at them.
"Oh, have some fun once in a while. Don't make me come over there Kiri!"
Getting even more nervous Kirishima misses his footing and slips. "ARGH!"
"KIRISHIMA!" They yell before Uraraka grabs ahold of his rope activating her quirk on it and him.
Slowly opening his eyes Kirishima comes face to face with both girls' shocked faces. "I'm… I'm not dead?"
"No." Mina breaths' a sigh of relief. "I'm so sorry Kiri I didn't mean-"
He holds up a hand "hey no worries, Mina. It's all good he smiles. "That was some quick reflex Uraraka thanks."
"No problem. I'm just glad you're ok."
Breathing out Bakugo is relieved to see his friend still in one piece. "Alight enough playing around we need to get to the top."
"So back to what Uraraka was saying earlier. Why don't we just float to the top?" Mina says, looking up at him.
"And why the hell would we do that? That's just taking the fuckin easy way out."
Lifting her eyebrow, Uraraka looks at a floating Kirishima before smirking at Bakugo. "I mean when you think about it there's nothing wrong with that idea. That is IF you want to be the first one back to camp tomorrow. Then this is the quickest way to do it right?"
Looking between the two Kirishima scratches his head "Hey guys as much as I like hanging around and debating about this…" He looks down seeing how high they've climbed and how he was just floating like a balloon. "Could we please hurry this up."
Looking back at her Bakugo lets out a reluctant groan. "Tch. Fuckin fine!"
"Ok. So since I already have Kirishima I'm going to float myself then reach out to you ok Mina?"
Nodding her head at Uraraka "Ok."
"And whatever you do, don't fuckin look down!" Bakugo shouts back with a giant smirk.
"ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?!" Mina yells after widening her eyes seeing how high up they were.
Glaring up at the blond Uraraka simply shakes her head in disbelief.
With a giant grin Bakugo just looks at her "What?"
"Nevermind. Ok Mina look at me." She tries to catch her friends gaze.
"I can't not unsee this." She says as she still stares down in horror.
"Come on Mina we can do this. We've done worse during training, ok?"
"Umm…ok"
"Ok Mina are you ready?"
"Uh…yeah…" Mina nods before accidentally gazing at everything below "OH CRAP URARKA I'M LOOKING DOWN AGAIN!"
"Just relax ok keep your eyes on me. Once I activate my quirk on you, I want you to hold on to Kirishima, ok?"
"Alright."
"And Bakugo, once all of us are in the air I want you to-"
"DON'T FUCKIN TELL ME WHAT TO DO ROUND-FACE I ALREADY KNOW!"
"Alright. Here we go." She smiles determinedly and activates her quirk on herself while holding on to the mountain. After reaching out to Mina, she pushes her towards Kirishima who's now hugging her.
"Just keep your eyes on me ok Mina." He smiles at her. She just nods and holds on tighter.
Uraraka maneuvers them so she can tie the rope around the two just in case while still holding on to the end with one hand. Slowly making her way towards Bakugo he makes eye contact with her before scowling and reaching out his hand.
Once he grabs her hand, he pulls her closer to him while she activates her quirk on him. Once they are all in the air, he lets off a small explosion propelling them higher. Feeling the blast of his explosion he had to quickly tighten his hold on her hand before looking over at her and groaning in frustration.
Hearing him she looks to her left "Bakugo?"
Seeing his cheeks turn a little pink he simply growls "Hang on" Before pulling himself closer and tightly wrapping an arm around her waist.
Feeling her cheeks flush she panics "EH?" She sees Bakugo moving his face away but still seeing his ears red.
"What? Do you want your ass to go flying off?" he mumbles.
Letting off a few more explosions they speed up and make it to the top before Bakugo sends another one sideways and Uraraka places all finger pads together "Release."
Dropping all of them to the ground they all lay down breathing heavily for a minute except Bakugo who's leaning with his hands on his knees.
"Sweet, sweet, lovely ground. How I missed you so!" Mina smiles.
"Hey look!" Kirishima grins pointing towards a pole with 4 red flags attached to it.
"About damn time." Bakugo exhales while walking towards the pole rubbing his hands against his pants and trying to get rid of that weird tingling feeling.
